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Raphael Warnock: “Politics requires leverage, and it is an exercise in power.”

Featuring: Raphael Warnock, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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Sen. Raphael Warnock on Trump, Redistricting Chaos, and the Midterms

Published | Video Starts at 1:03:16

It was, let's see if these shopkeepers think it's a good idea to continue to marginalize people in the days that lead up to Easter shopping. Right? Right. So Politics requires leverage, and it is an exercise in power. And we've got to use all of those tools, and I would encourage us to use them in this tough moment when they're literally doing everything to try to crush the voices of ordinary people. (1:03:16–1:03:23)

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